My Minnesota

It's the season of thunderstorms, heat and humidity. Butterfly weed is in bloom. Day lilies have started to come into flower, something ...

Some leaf bud scales have dropped. Our day lilies are a couple of inches tall. A few flowers have appeared in the front flower bed. Hints of...

Welcome to Sun Day ! There's an (in)famous quote about news: "If it bleeds, it leads." Doom-scrolling social media, reading th...

Yesterday was a Red Flag day and not just because it was Mother's Day! Low humidity, winds gusting into the low thirties mph, plus no p...

At least we’re not in a tent somewhere camping. Another rainy day in Minnesota is doing wonders for the plants and mosquitos but not so much...

 Let’s make every day Earth Day, shall we? “Blue Marble,” our only home NASA Photo ID AS17-148-22727 Earth Day By  Jane Yolen I am the Earth...

From today’s issue of The Guardian: Republican senator Tom Cotton calls for vigilantism to break up Gaza protests One can but presume the sa...

As I hope you know already, April is National Poetry Month . If you’re a repeated reader of this blog, you may have noted that I’m a trout f...

Today's posting will be short and sort'a sweet and sort'a not so. I’m wishing there was a more positive way to look at a couple ...

 As I was rereading the first chapter of Joy Harjo’s Catching the Light this morning, my day was brightened by  this paragraph: The traditi...

  Earthrise , taken on December 24, 1968, by  Apollo 8  astronaut  William Anders That’s our home planet pictured above. The only one we hav...

Almost every Spring I’m surprised by how long it takes for the winter’s accumulation of snow to finally melt. The field behind the house is ...

Last night we had ten or twelve deer in the backyard. I believe that’s a record although I admit not staying awake nights to observe. We may...

The melting from today’s warm temperatures was limited because there was no sun intensity. In fact, there was almost no sun at all. Township...

Today’s (and yesterday’s) local weather will set a baseline for some of us that clearly demonstrates the validity of William McDonough’s ass...